Lost Vape Centaurus E40 Max Pod Kit

Stephen lets us know his thoughts on the new Centaurus E40 pod kit from Lost Vape

by Stephen Gitsham
Oct 7, 2024

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Sourcemore sent over this nifty little pod kit for me to try out, the new Lost Vape Centaurus E40.

Lost Vape have been firing out pod kits left, right, and centre recently. I’ve already been using their Elite Art 40 kit for the past wee while, so it’s nice to see that the pods are compatible with this newest offering as the 40 range all use the E-Plus pods.

The Centaurus E40 Max is a 1400 mAh internal battery kit with 40W of maximum power. It’s both button and draw activated, plus there’s an airflow slider to further adjust things to suit your style. The 0.42” OLED screen lets you see the details, and the battery is charged via a USB Type C cable.

In the box you get:

1 Centaurus E40 Max Device
1 0.3Ω E Plus Cartridge (3ml)
1 0.6Ω E Plus Cartridge (3ml)
1 Lanyard
1 Type-C Cable
1 User Manual
1 Warranty Card

The kit looks quite nice and is reasonably compact for giving 40W of power. The main body is made from aluminium alloy, and the faces have a nice leather type covering that feels soft and just looks good to me. On one face, the design is embedded in the faux leather and on the other it’s the same design but this time it has LED lights in it to illuminate things when you take a draw. My one has a purple light and it’s not tacky or gimmicky. I really quite like it.

On the front you have your fire button, which clicks nicely, and your screen with the adjustment buttons beneath that. At the bottom there’s the USB C slot so it can be charged standing up, and at the back there’s the airflow slider, which allows for a reasonably tight draw on the 0.6ohm pod. It’s not super tight but it’s tight enough to get a decent draw out of it, and the auto draw works really well with MTL.

The pods are the E-Plus pods, which, as I mentioned earlier, work across the E40 range of kits. I started off on the 0.3ohm as I like a good RDL draw, and it works pretty well, even doing ok at the max 40W. I lowered it to 35W as I hate going full power, and it gives a decent RDL draw using auto draw, but it does cut off after a bit, probably because of the way I RDL vape, but then you can always just press the fire button to get a longer puff should you want that, and I do! I like a longer, slower draw on RDL so the button was a good option to have on this device.

The 0.6ohm pod is also good. You can get a nice MTL draw with it, despite this feeling more like a RDL type of pod kit, and, as mentioned, the MTL draw works very well with the auto draw on this kit. Opening up the airflow lets you get a nice lowish wattage RDL vape as well so it caters for everything, depending on your mood. Another thing to note is that the device has a kind of smart mode so you can’t go over 30W with this pod in.

Both pods give a nice flavour and a good amount of vapour and, given that the highest resistance one in the kit is 0.6ohms, you can use 70/30 ratio juice no problem, although flavour is a bit better with 50/50 if you’re MTLing. There’s also the added bonus of being able to use the RBA kit which can be bought separately.

Final Thoughts

If I’m being honest, there’s not a large difference to this kit from the Elite Art 40, but I personally prefer the aesthetics of the Centaurus. It’s a more classic look from Lost Vape.

I do like the RDL aspect of the 0.3ohm pod, and I think the pods are decent, the flavour is good, as it always is with Lost Vape coils. I also love the light effect on this Centaurus device, it doesn’t look like a high tech pod, and the light just adds something for me personally.

I worry that the smart mode might restrict things if using the RBA, but then I’m not much of an RBA person when it comes to pods myself, so I like what’s going on overall.

Thanks again to Sourcemore for letting me try the Lost Vape Centaurus E40 Max pod kit out. You can buy it from them for $34.19 but Sourcemore have very kindly given CE40M as a code to use to let you get it for $23.39, which is £17.63 going on exchange rates at the time of writing this.

Pros

Great RDL device that does MTL nicely too
Pods have good flavour
Compact for a 40W device

Cons

Better using the button to draw with as the auto draw is a little inconsistent

Stephen Gitsham

Reviewer at POTV

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I was a very militant smoker for many years…why would I stop doing the only thing I had left that I liked doing? Then I fell into vaping in 2017. My wife bought a cheap kit off from Amazon that stopped working and I took it to a local vape shop to see what they could do with it. An hour later and full of new knowledge about watts, ohms, and juice strength, I headed home with a new nautilus mini tank for her and raved to her about the helpful guy in the shop. I must have bored her with all my new found information. I tried her vape that night, and a week later bought my own kit. Then I found POTV and the amazingly helpful and generous people on it. A month later I was making my own (disgusting) vape juice, and a month after that I was winding coils for my new RDA. Six years on and I'm much better at making juice, and I now have no money but lots of shiny mods and tanks

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